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The Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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Captain Smith of schooner Diana, arriving in Charleston from Porto Rico, reports French decrees revoking commissions for small privateers and prohibiting captures of neutral American vessels from British ports. Encountered French frigates Medusa and Insurgente near Caicos. Hopes for peace in Porto Rico and St. Domingo based on French Directory news.
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Capt. Smith, of the schooner Diana which arrived yesterday from Porto Rico, informs that the French consul there, had in consequence of a late decree received from France, taken away the commissions of a number of French barges and small privateers which were in there, this decree was said to limit the giving commissions to vessels carrying less than six guns, and likewise to prohibit the capture of American, and other neutral vessels, from British or any other ports, excepting those which were formerly French, and have been termed rebel ports by the decree of the French Directory. Some American vessels from British ports, captured and carried into Porto Rico, had been cleared, in consequence of late orders.
On the 14th instant, a little to the northward of Caicos, Capt. S. spoke the two French frigates Medusa and Insurgente under command of commodore Barney, from Port de Paix, bound to France, and was requested to give a passage to the pilot, who had conducted the frigates through the Bahama passage, as the privateer which had come out in company with them for the purpose of taking him back, had given them the slip. The pilot is said to have brought dispatches for citizen Victor Dupont, the French consul.
At Porto Rico and St. Domingo, they were in great expectations of a general peace, but the ground upon which their hopes were built, was a bad foundation—as the report of their latest accounts from France, was that a majority of the Directory were in favor of peace, and a revolution had been the consequence of the opposition of the minority.
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Charleston
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November 27
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some american vessels from british ports, captured and carried into porto rico, had been cleared, in consequence of late orders.
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Capt. Smith, of the schooner Diana which arrived yesterday from Porto Rico, informs that the French consul there, had in consequence of a late decree received from France, taken away the commissions of a number of French barges and small privateers which were in there, this decree was said to limit the giving commissions to vessels carrying less than six guns, and likewise to prohibit the capture of American, and other neutral vessels, from British or any other ports, excepting those which were formerly French, and have been termed rebel ports by the decree of the French Directory. On the 14th instant, a little to the northward of Caicos, Capt. S. spoke the two French frigates Medusa and Insurgente under command of commodore Barney, from Port de Paix, bound to France, and was requested to give a passage to the pilot, who had conducted the frigates through the Bahama passage, as the privateer which had come out in company with them for the purpose of taking him back, had given them the slip. The pilot is said to have brought dispatches for citizen Victor Dupont, the French consul. At Porto Rico and St. Domingo, they were in great expectations of a general peace, but the ground upon which their hopes were built, was a bad foundation—as the report of their latest accounts from France, was that a majority of the Directory were in favor of peace, and a revolution had been the consequence of the opposition of the minority.